multiple desktops with icons

[Daniel Hollocher]

Hi Littlegirl, Sinclair,
These two tips are very much spot on.  Thanks!  I'm starting to get a
better hang of it.

Dan

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:39 PM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/24/2013 04:47 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> So I'm brand new to kde.  I'm giving it a try because I want to have
>> different icon sets on different workspaces (ie, a task oriented setup).
>>   So, when I first started up, I looked for the setting here:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/**showthread.php?t=1439279<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1439279>
>> <mailto:kubuntu-users at lists.**ubuntu.com <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>>
>>    but couldn't find it.
>>
>>
>> I also noticed that my icons on the desktop were missing.  BUT, then I
>> noticed there was a  window with my icons  in it.  I tried to drag it to
>> the corner, and make it bigger to take up the whole desktop, but then it
>> disappeared, and now my icons are missing.
>>
>> I've noticed the Activities feature, which looks like what I might want,
>> but I can't figure out how to get icons on the desktop.
>>
>> Am-I-doing-it-wrong?
>>
>> Dan
>>
>> PS - a few other issues:
>> I tried to change the default browser to chrome, but the menu still just
>> opens Rekonq
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>>
>>  On the "different set of desktop icons" - I have different widgets,
> icons etc on different virtual desktops. The setting is in
> System Settings - Workspace Behaviour - Virtual Desktops. Click on
> "Different Widgets for each Desktop".
>
> Note that if you do this after you set too many Desktop things up you may
> have to redo them.
>
> kind regards
> Sinclair
>
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